Tag Archives: Java

Fixing Java tools on Snow Leopard

Posted on October 21, 2009 by Brian Pontarelli

I was attempting to work with VisualVM and Tomcat over the past few days on Snow Leopard and it was constantly failing. I was getting errors like this: “attach: task_for_pid(59980) failed (5)” I was also getting errors inside VisualVM and … Continue reading →

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Visual Studio sucks, NetBeans is coming along, IJ is slipping

Posted on December 5, 2008 by Brian Pontarelli

I’ve been working on a decent sized C++ project recently and since the application will be used on a Windows server, I wanted to stay close to that platform. I fired up the latest Visual Studio 2008 version hot off … Continue reading →

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Savant command-line tool and plugins are almost ready

Posted on November 14, 2008 by Brian Pontarelli

Been working this week on Savant 2.0. My first thought when I started writing Savant 2.0 was to write a complete replacement for both Maven and Ant that used Groovy and allowed for both a plugin model as well as … Continue reading →

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Android, iPhone, Java, Objective-C… madness

Posted on October 19, 2008 by Brian Pontarelli

Russ Teabeault and I were just talking about our recent experiences with Objective-C and developing applications for either the iPhone or OS X. In general, we both agree that Objective-C is necessary, but painful. The language is quasi-dynamic, not very … Continue reading →

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Java and command-tab fixed?

Posted on September 30, 2008 by Brian Pontarelli

I might be smokin’ crack, but I think that todays (September 30th, 2008) Java update from Apple finally fixed the command-tab issue. I haven’t verified it with different apps yet, but the ones I use regularly seem to be working … Continue reading →

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